22 – Use memonic.com - Summary May be some of these hints are useful for some of you. Pulled together as one set you may find them here. Exactly this is what Memonic is all about: Collect snippets of

21 – Learn to live with the ups and downs of every startup During the last weeks Memonic received a number of awards, closed a financing round, got a lot of new users, all in all a very successful

20 – 80% of success is showing up How to advertise your application? A national ad campaign is probably over your budget, so is the TV. Yet there many alternative and very cost effective methods.

19 – Catch those warnings – Use Splunk As soon as your website is live a ton of data is silently gatherd in countless log files across your application’s systems. Most often nobody ever pays those log

18 – Automated testing Wit the launch days away most startups focus on getting it done. If achieving this goal requires a compromise quality is often the accidental victim. Goal achieved,

17 – Use puppet No, this blog post is not about a child’s doll. They’re lovely and my daughter loves them very much. This post is about a software tool – better a framework – with the name Puppet.

16 – Consider using agile development methods (such as scrum) The traditional waterfall methods for project management have much for them: Tested for centuries. That’s how big engineering feats have

15 – Do usability testing All your mockups (previous post) will not protect you from completely and utterly misrepresent what users really want the application to behave. There is only one way to get

14 – Get early agreement – do mockups And off you go. All set up, your product idea clearly spelled out (at least that’s what the founding team thinks), now it’s just a question of execution.

13 – Don’t waste time that others do better (plus it’s free or almost free) Any company needs a number of basic processes and applications such as Email, calendaring, time tracking, billing,